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PREPS ~111. COeICLE, APOTHEC Serene Highness the Land AND PATRON BILIOUS PILLS, RED BY ..:ARY EXTRAORDINARY dgravine ot HESSE HOMBURG, DzED BY THY Bishop of Durham Bishop of Chester Bishop of Bath and Wells Bishop of Norwich Bishop of Peterborough Bishop of Ely Bishop of Gloucester Bishop of Chichester Bishop of Worcester Bishop of Hereford Bishop of St. Asaph Bishop of Bangor Bishop of LlandatT Bishop of Calcutta Right Hon. J. A. Murray, Lord Advocate of Scotland Right Hon. R. ( .Ferguson, M.P. Right Hon. Poulett Thomson, M.P. Hon. Sir Edward ('ust, &C.a. Hon. Fox Maule, M.P. Sir Gerard Noel, M.P. Sir Robert Grant Sir Henry Blake Sir SamuelFludyer Sir Andrew Agnew. M.p, Sir Robert Buxton Sir John Forbes Sir Philip B. V, liroke, K.C.B. Sir Henry Smyth, M.P. Thomas W. Coke, Esq. James B. Wildman, Esq. Colonel Tynte, 111. P. Colonel Sibthorp, M.P. Captain Peelle% M.P. S. Grove Price, Esq., M.P. Matthias Atw ood, Esq, M.P. Alderman Wood, M.P. Alderman Thompson, M.P. Charles Walker, Esq., M.P. T. B. Mash, Esq., St. James's Palace Archdeacon of Colchester Reverend Dr. Benson Reverend Dr. Burney Reverend Dr. Birch Reverend Dr. Miller Robert Renwick, Esq., M.D. C. Waddy, Esq., late M.P., Dublin John Hatchell, Esq., K.C,, Dublin the highest Respectability. ie Proprietor, New Ormond-street, spectable Medicine Vender through but. of Grafton ~Itlte of Manchester duke of lieauf..rt Voke of Rutland Dikeof Buccleuch 'of Sutherl a nd oke of Devonshire iprquis of Lansdownely. V , trquis of Tavistock Aarquis of Aylesbury 11:,,,N0is of Illandford 14 - , r go!il of Winchester t an go , * of Abercorn of Eldon t am o f f, Harrowby Mulgrare Ear of Minto 1„..,r; of Errol Earl of Darling o f lii nnol o Etl of Guildford arl of Scarborough of Oxfor b _ ir arl of Thanet d . '4olf Athlone ;tan 0 Itosconamors fi,ari C owper "{-;',15,1 Amherst iLeount Melbourne Visscou t Palmerston , ‘ ';!s c r n i tt I F l o ° r w d i w e i k c h I,,,eoutit Torrington ~!Oount Forbes i'ri7oUnt Alford /4?,.n._ Acheson ~Lord , Lornmander.m.Chiel Le m A rriket Lor d , array Lor flentinck kord barhaern n ° Zn rd Vx.einrinmanird Eo r rg , S o...Maur narnd 41,141 Westetlarn 4 A rchbishop of Armagh 0. 4 And Numerous Families of 0 ,7t2 h ese Pills may be had of tklirrop e ° W. London, and of every rc r. Ilk A - HT RESTORED, NERVOUS HEAD- Pry :', l aE CURED, and CHOLERA PREVENTED, it, r tltt ;°,,e PATRONAGE of his late MAJESTY, and the LORDS of Jib Eft? CRY. Dr. ABERNEI HY used it. Dr. ANDREWS says tbaCEOUS QUALITY RENOVATES the coats of the Sto- N•' ol l3,„' - z;NGTHENS the NERVES of the HEAD, caused by the to. or.pPathy of the membrane of the nose with the nervous system. ", 9ninence, and Oculists, recommend its universal adoption. tr, ../thutnnonials of Cataract, Gutta Serena, Ophthalmia, and Nervous with Addresses, given Gratis by . the Inventor, W. 4 - ° lla ▪ whose signature is on each canister, with the above Royal G „ A FEW CASES OF SIGHT RESTORED. ‘V )s - DPY, N 0.36 Nelson-square,Blackfriars-road, cured of Ophthalmia. h i ' , he s ' -"ry Itoades i Market-place%Vinslow, Bucks, cured of Ophthalmia. 1t1i 41 : 4 7„t 0 her cue, Mr. Mr. John hoades, father, and R. Walker, Esq., a Of g•L'lntyre, aged 65, No. 3, Silver-street, Golden-square; cured thn:erena. /4 % 4 ' 13 1 n h,„' ( 1., Marine Library, Ramsgate, Rent; cured of Cataract. - ; cured while at Jamaica of Gutta Serena, No. 37, Mary \Jr ent s Park, I ondon. 11 . i„,underson, No. 10, Harper-street, Leeds; cured of Cataract. -41 414` mckw 11 Ttt h house Tottenham, Middlesex, cured o Ai, e , o am 004f 4.l4lanin ~metinget, Windsor; cured of Nervous Head-ache. ; Lesp the Church, Park-street, Windsor ; cured of gas• °Pee s S ight and Head-ache. Of s• Mi th, Esq., 6, York-place, Kentish.town; Weakness and Dim removed its use 'l'l''llesVQB,l,l}ackburn Esq. Chertsey, Surrey; Head-ache, Weakness and ''fth'heet,,,' Sight aire a . ' efie,t-ts.....original Testimonials from Medical Gentlemen and Families `"Vectability, proving the above, maybe seen ▪ Thi At 39, Broad-st'eet, Bloomsbury, And 24, King-street, Long-Acre, London. with v 4. eZherous Snuff is sold in canisters at Is. 3d., 2s. 4d., 4s. 4d., Bs., ~i dpi he at;: ac h..; Look tons signature of the Inventor on each canister, itoyal Patrge TESTIMONIALS. th e 4 3, 4 t h 4 Olt ik e i l t ° n r at r pl ms i t tor of the Albion, I2th Sept., 1835 :—" We have ne Eye Snuff has justly excited such notice in dhi L'l4„e.,Z, r Y quarter o 9 f the globe, as t einduce Don G. Lobe, Consul, ane exclusive dealer in drugs and chemical products, at the :11), he 't,'h as the Isle of Cuba, to so icit the soleagency in that quarter, to been ape° . teby Mr Grimstone, through the meffinm k'it h „,v l -„,."' Ortiz de zt t ig n asti, 12 Ahillery-place, Finsbury, the Spanish *.eg e 'lseCetal to the Court of Great ' Britain Attested, &c., before two Qoli owin • %1., • NV, 's a copy of Don G. Lobe's letter rlaistone London. he red• nouse ' Havannah l , 98 in th dr A ug p s ri a l n 1;35 0 . e. r t aot • , Lobe, doing business exclusive y , Ci it will t h 'Pri se 0 5 the Island of Cuba, and this part of Amen 1e ) 4 , 4 tj,:leht: O a 4 t O hear, that I have known of your excellent so E ' y e e S ti n m u e ff , kl n i h, a t I .h ati rLl removal of pains in the head, &c. &c., for m s n linr4.Sles, rB '.„have procured it by means of my correspondents in 4 t . th e ItIR 44 into and Co., that rhed. : friars. It has proved such o t( 't)t; clev na „o certain remedy, it has given uffiversal satisfactio m n; 11,,,T4 t o p I have for it, with its undoubted efficacy, has called_ m y trPtalle)'"eirtractical effect. Ido consider it to the interest of ac. Tr, , le sole agency for the Isle of Cuba ; not doubting your in me, ease g'„,ms, as I shall always send the cash with my orders, i ;;;Zlet'AfkqeT_ e ei r lelosed you a bill five days sight, on C w l i i i trl h es y ß ou u as t w ta i r li if )o ,eo 4mo e °_ u se t s , o Th o rogmorton t s e t c liet , , e London,utr for lt will further oblige sonie y . n y r o c u eleb a f r testimonials r translated into Spanish. Sir, I am your's faithfully, ON G. LOBE, Ca ballero de la Ord en D del Leon, Consul General de S. M. 01 Rey de los Paises Bajos en la Isla de Cuba, Agents Siia LETTER o l its Sce cha i p ed p a y d COP or B, de c. Cornmercio Nederlands, Chthandel, kad ree • ving b sent to MIL GRIMSTONE, July 9th, 1835. , h 4,„ ei ved een afflicted with bad Eyes for along time, a friend who t',yv,_takeo the from using your Eye Snuff, recommended it to me; 1 1 1 1 av,,,j 0 Y sighl e ontent s of two of sour 2s. 4d. canisters, and am happy . 111)0111;1'1T,',it i improved ; the weakness , and dimnesslsre. 6, \;„ ' l, 3' wish that you snake this known for the good of e•Opy"'k Pf a „ „ , Yours, GEORGE SMITH. I or, , own July 9th, 1835. 44 ff• sent to MR. 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I iThere are this week moderato supplies of all kinds of Grain, ald a small return of Flour Fine Wheat is so scarce that a further advance has been obtained for such, and even mid dling parcels have sold better than on Monday. Barley is also rather dearer. Beans and Pease remain as last reported. Oats obtain a small advance on Monday's rates. There has been a fair trade for Flour this week, and higher prices are expected. ARRIVALS. Wheat. Barley. Oats. I Flour. English 4,C40 qrs 7,:5170 qrs. I 12,060 qrs .4,950 a Irish - 2,960 Freign.-- - 2,770 SMITHFIEL MARKET This day's supply was moderate alteration from the prices list quol a, and the sale was dull at little Ited : micas FEE STONE OF 6L13. TO SINK THE OFFALS. S. d. to s. d. s d to S d. Inferior Beasts ...... ....... 2 0 2 4 Inferior Sheep 2 4 2 6 Second quality ditto 2 8 3 2 Second quality ditto 2 8 3 0 Prime large Oxen 3 4 3 8 Coarse-woolled ditto..... 3 6 4 0 Prime Scots, &c. 110 4 2 Southdown Wethers ... 4 2 4 6 Large coarse Calves 3lO 4 4 Large Hogs... ........ ..... 3 2 3 8 Prime small ditto 4 6 410 Small Porkers .. 4 4 4 8 S•ickling Calves each ...15 u 32 0 1 Quarter old Pig teach, 12 h 20 0 Beasts, 340 SUPPLY, AS PER CL. Sheep. 3,100 STATEDiiNT. Calves. Pl. I 200 31 NEWGATE AND LEA At per stone, 1 _ 8. tl. los. d a d toe d. Beef, inferior 2 2 2 4 Mutton, inferior 2 2 2 6 - middling ...... ..... 2 6 210 -- middling 2lO 3 2 -- prime large - prime 5ma11.... ..... 3 4 3 6 Pork, large 1 4 4 0 Veal DENHALL MARKETS. •y the Carcass. ISLINGTON CATTLE MARKET. This day's supply consisted of 26 Beasts,lso2 Sheep:sx and 0 Calves. The trade was dull throughout at the prices per stone of 81b. sinking the offals : Beef 3s. 2d. to 45. 2d. I Veal Os. Od. t Mutton 3 6 4 4 I Port COUNTRY CORN.MARKETS DURING THE W heat. Per Quarter. s. to s. Blandford 51 59 Grigg . 48 51 46 Chard aro 48 52 iluntingdun,....... 46 54 Long 5utt0n......... 28 / 38 Louth 45 53 ay 32 38 Newark 43 50 Nottingham 31 39 Peterborough 40 '49 Plymouth 40 50 67 Sleaford Gb 70 Uppingham 43 48 33 42 Barley. I Oats. I Beans. S. to 2. S. to s 18 25 38 40 20 24 20 24 16 20 20 25 16 20 19 26 10 28 16 22 20 23 22 28 16 28 - 20 i 40 46 3 38 30 34 37 42 30 32 43 45 35 42 30 42 - 43 41 43 32 44 30 32 MARKET.—Oct. 27 Per Quarter. s. d. s. d. Barley 36 0 to 43 6 Oats 25 0 30 0 Beans (per sack) 2O 0 t 6 0 Flour (per bag) 37 0 39 0 Bread (per gall.) 1 I 0 8. 8 32 3t 1 3 iI 28 • 32 32 39 23 33 22 31 35 39 23 31 34 58 30 34 -43 30 38 24 30 DEVIZES CORN Per Sack. s. d. e. d. First Wheat 30 0 to 32 0 Second 25 0 27 6 Third .2 0 23 0 1627 Sacks of Wheat sold/ 26 7 at the average of LEEDS CORN MARKET.— Oct. 2.5 Wheat, Norfolk and Suffblk, 601 b. --- 44 s . to York. and Lincoln. 601 b. 438, Barley, Norfolk and Sullblk -- Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding ..... ................................... . ........ 525: to Beans 63lb. Th. to 41s. r4T Oats, I'otatoe ....................................... ............... 23 5 . t o 26.3. 11 ----Akaling, For. —d. to—d brig. I:2d. to 133. per stone. Shelling 27s. to 29... per load. Rapeseed, English, 34t. to 36/ ... Foreign, to—l. per last. LIVERPOOL CORN EXCH A NGE.—Oct. 25. Wn CAT, English, White, per 70111 -----.. Red ... 8 3 8 sz6 .-----. Scotch, Welch, and Manx - ... 8 .0 8 3 .----- Irish, White 7 4 5 ,0 -- Red -- Foreign OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 3 7 4 2 Irish ....4 3 8 3 10 --- Foreign 0 0 0 t) BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 3B 0 42 0 .--- Scotch and Irish, per 601hs. ...... ......... ---- Feeding 46 4 8 BRANS, English, per Imperial quarter 44 0 48 0 ---- Irish, &c. --- Foreign PEASE, English, per I mperial quarter 46 0 48 0 --- Foreign FLoua, English, per 2801 b. 4O 0 43 0 _ _ _ —um Irish OATMEAL. English and Irish, per .2.40Ibs INniax Coax, per 4401 b. --... 42 0 44 0 RYE, per Imperial quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter IMPORT OF GRAIN for the Week ending Oct. 24. Wheat. 1 Oats. 1 Barley Flour. Oatmeal Qrs. _ Ors. Qrs. (Foreign, 8r16.1 Irish,&c. Scks Load; 3,113 4;361 1,090 10) 4,471 1,047 id Lambs, following k,o Os. Od. 0 0 WEEK. Pease. S. to S :39 32 36 32 34 36 " CALAIS and GUISTES. " The general food of the agricultural labourer •in this part of France consists of bread, potatoes, and vegetables, and soup made of bread, vegetables, and a small portion of bacon, or salt pork. On this head they are certainly not so well found as the English labourers, having very rarely, if ever, any kind of butche►'s meat. " During the spring and summer the women are a good deal employed on the land, particularly in weeding the corn and flax, and planting potatoes, and in pulling the flax when gathered, which is always done by the hand. In the autumn they are employed in getting in potatoes. In these employments they can earn 10 / or 12 sous (sd. or 6d.) a day. In the winter they go out to spin. A woman hired during harvest has 15 francs (12s. 6d.) a month and her victuals ; if hired by the day during harvest, 15 sous (7d.) a day, and her victuals. When they go out to spin, they have from five to seven francs a month, with board and lodging. When not hired during the summer, they go out to cut grass on the wastes or in the woods, which they col lect for their cow in the winter—almost every cottager who has a family having a cow. " The working dresses of the labouring population consist generally of coarse linen stuff, and costs about 24 or 30 francs (1/. to 1/. .55.) The better clothing, worn on holi days by such as can afford it, costs from 60 to 75 francs (2/. 10s. to 3/. 2s. 6d.), and is something of the same ma terial as that worn by the English people of the same class, though I think the English labourer is the better clothed. With respect to the comparative cost of the clothing of la bourers of the two countries, I am unable to judge, having had no opportunity of making any observations in England for the last 30 years. The manufacture of cotton lace is carried on at Calais and in the vicinity to a very considerable extent, employing 800 machines. It was first commenced soon after the peace by English people, who came from Nottingham, and has since greatly increased. At this time it is by no means so prosperous as formerly. Workmen who formerly earned 90 centimes the rack (9d.) can now obtain only 30 cen times (3d.) the rack. For some years the manufacture of lace was almost entirely in the hands of the English ; but at present the French arc at least equally concerned in it. Five or six machines is the average number worked and owned by a single proprietor. The thread of which the lace is made is mostly smuggled from England. In consequence of the present depressed state of the lace trade, there is considerable distress amongst the workmen, and a number of the English workmen have lately gone to England, being unable to obtain work. Several machines have been obliged to stop working within this month, in consequence of the low price of the lace." On the subject of " taxation" in France there are the following statements from the Consul at Brest : " FRENCH TAXATION. " Taxes (with the exception of the door and window-tax) are very unequally levied throughout France. " France is divided into 86 departments, each of which contributes, according to its population and revenue, a pro portion of the taxes annually voted by the Chambers. Were this principle strictly adhered to, nothing could be more equitable ; but the basis on which the allotment of taxes is grounded is that of 1791, since which no regular estimation of property has taken place. " The departments are divided into arrondissements, which arc subdivided into cantons ; these arc again subdi vided into communes. " There is a conseil-general for every department, and a conseil for each arrondissement. The members of both councils are chosen by the electors of the department. " Wben the taxes are voted, the amount to be paid by the department is signified to the conseil-general, by whom it is divided between the arrondissements. The conseil d'arrondissement subdivides it amongst the communes. " In each commune are a mayor and a municipal coun cil ; the mayor appointed by Government, and the council elected by householders paying certain taxes. " Assessors of taxes are proposed by the Mayor and ap proved by the sous-prefet (there are a prefet for every department, and a sous-prefet to every arrondissement). The assessors attend to changes in doors and windows, and to mutations of property. They regulate the poll and furniture taxes always according to the estimation of 1791. " At that period ( 1791 ) each commune was favoured or injured by the valuators, according to the political senti ments of the inhabitants, or the caprice of the ruling party. Hence the difference in the property-tax paid in the several communes. " The commune of Conquet pays about one-seventh of its real revenue, whilst Plousane pays one-ninth, and Lem bezellec only about one-fifteenth. In some communes the proprietor does not pay more than one-twentieth. Under Napoleon a general survey (le cadastre) was commenced, to correct the valuation of property. It is still going on, although very slowly. Little more than two thirds of France are surveyed. Before this survey is finished another will be required, the changes since its commence ment being so great. _ " There have been at different periods attempts to allot a more equitable share to each department. During the Villele Ministry, the proportions of several departments, being erroneous, were altered. " It is only within the last three years that the conseil gensraux have been made elective, the members being for merly chosen by Government. The result has not proved satisfactory. When the members were appointed by Go vernment, they considered themselves bound to attend the council. At present some go, others do not. In 1832, the members for the arrondissement of Brest being absent, the taxes were nearly doubled, to the detriment of Brest, and to the relief of other arrondissements whose members attended. This year, Brest being represented, its taxes are reduced, but another arrondissement suffers." " LA LOIRE INFERIEURE. " The largest farms seldom extend beyond 300 acres ; the greater part are from 60 to 200 ; if the soil be good, and the whole fit for cultivation, they run from 60 to 100, and so on, in proportion to the quantity of waste laud on them. Near to the Nantes there are grounds let as high as 87 francs (31. 10s.) per acre, whilst in the vicinity of Chateaubriand the average price is not 12i francs (10s.), ' and in other parts of the department it is even less, from the want of roads. This depreciation of property at a distance from the roads throughout this department and La Vendee will soon be remedied, as the Government has commenced cutting communications in every direction, and the money to defray the expense has been voted by the Chamber : they are expected to be completed in two years ; but if the usual inactivity be applied to them that has been given to other public works, they will not be completed in 10 years. The present value, therefore, of a great part of the farms is not above one-third of what it may be when all these roads shall be finished. Very few of the farms are let for money : the leases run from three to five and seven years, seldom beyond the latter term ; and from this cause arises, in some measure, the miserable state of the grounds at the expira tion of.the lease!. The usual mode of letting is for the proprietor to receive half the produce ; but some farmers pay a stipulated quantity of grain for the arable, and money for the pasture land ; the greater number, are let for one half of all the produce, clear to the proprietor, which is ano ther cause of the impoverished state of the land ; for what farmer can be expected to lay out his money in manure when he knows he will only reap one-half of tho advantage that may arise from it ? In general the farmers are very poor, but they are as r i c h as t h ey h ave ever b een ; th ey are a class without capital, have seldom a sufficient stock of cattle, and, from the effects of the causes I have already alluded to, they feel no desire, no ambition to exert them selves, or rise above what they are, remaining content with the produce of a farm that will just serve to maintain their family. Yet several of those persons who resided in Eng land during the war, or have visited it since the peace, or have sense enough to comprehend the value of the mode of agriculture pursued by some Englishmen in their neigh bourhood, are by degrees improving their lands, by length ening the terms of their leases to the farmers, by giving the latter a more decided interest in the cultivation of the ground," &c. " CORSICA. " The mountainous character of this island favours little the contiguity of landed property. An ordinary landowner in Corsica, where division of labour is at its infancy and capital is scarce, will at once possess lands producing corn and other grains, wine, oil, chescuts, vegetables, fruits, &c., and soils of such fitness cannot well be contiguous. This natural Separation is still more, and to a highly de trimental degree, enhanced by the following causes : For centuries the laws have protected an equal succes sion amongst children ; the Geneose, when rulers, abetted this system, and the French law on heirdom, which found Corsica in an extravagantly parcelled state, has confirmed and aggravated it. These ancient and modern agraria nisms, unaccompanied by the remedies of capital and of various roads of industry, have made a proprietor of almost every Corsican, and have, it is true, averted bare mendi city, but also generally created a narrow situation without resources, pregnant of family intrigues and not unbloOdy dissensions, litigious propensities, and various checks on population ; and, combining with other incidents, they have fostered maxims which again serve to the same end of dis connecting all' landed property. It is a distinctive trait, that the Corsican rather starves than sells land ; that in heritances, which lose in value by division, still must sub mit to it ; that advantageous offers are the more readily refused, the more such land should aggrandize and connect the purchaser's estate. These causes serve to explain how it comes that almost every one is a landowner, that an or dinary proprietor of the second class, worth 20,000 f., has his little estates at ten or more unconnected places within a range whose radius exceeds many miles, and that the few great landowners (more near Ajaccio than in the northern part) possess indeed circuits of six to twenty miles, yet with separated spots of cultivation on such extent." PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. SALMON FISHERIES IN SCOTLAND. The Select Committee appointed to consider the state of the salmon fisheries in Scotland, in as far as relates to the , altering the close times in different districts in that part of the United Kingdom ; the laws for the observance of the Saturday's slap or opening of all cruives, engines, machines, or devices of whatever description used in salmon fishing ; the construction and regulation of cruives ; the regulation of mill leads or courses, and the removal of dams and ob structions in all rivers, streams, or waters ; and to report their opinion thereupon to the House, together with the minutes of evidence taken before them ; and who were in structed to inquire into the increase tr decrease in the numbers or weight of salmon, grilse, and sea trout taken in the several rivers and sea coasts of Scotland, since the Act 9 Geo . . IV., c. 39, came into operation ; and to report to the House specially thereupon ; and to whom Several pe titions were referred—have, pursuant to the order of the House, examined the matters referred to them, and have agreed to the following report : The only object of the close season being to afford pro tection to the fish when they are breeding, and during their state of exhaustion consequent upon it, your Com mittee are of opinion that the legal close time ought to be so regulated as to coincide, as nearly as possible, with the period so defined by nature. It has been established in evidence that in different rivers the periods at which the salmon ascend the rivers for the purpose of spawning and afterwards descend towards the sea, vary considerably ; and therefore, upon the principle above laid down, your Com mittee are of opinion that it would be advantageous to the general interests of the salmon fisheries in Scotland to have the fence months, or close time, regulated according to the various circumstances of the respective rivers or districts, instead of having one uniform season, as at present. From the evidence taken it will be found that while none of the witnesses dispute the facts on which this re commendation is founded, some of them, whose opinions are certainly entitled to consideration, are opposed to the alteration ; while on the other hand a great number of wit nesses, whose individual opinions are of equal authority, are decidedly in favour of it. Those who are adverse to the change, ground their objec tion chiefly on the facilities which they apprehend might thereby be afforded to poaching, whilst at the same time they admit that an improvement in the produce of some rivers might be effected by the change. With reg ard to the validity of this objection, the Com mittee woud remark, that although by the Act 9, Geo. IV., c. 39, a uniform season was, for the first time, ap plied to the whole of Scotland (with the exception of the river Tweed, and the rivers running into the Solway Frith, which are regulated by particular Acts of Parliament) yet, in all the other parts of the United Kingdom, and especially in Ireland, there are, and always have been, various seasons suited to the different natures of the several rivers ; and, nevertheless, the evils apprehended by those who object to this system have not been proved to result from its adoption in those places. While your Committee are thus of opinion that the close seasons applicable to particular rivers or districts ought to vary as to their periods of commencement and termination, they recommend that in no case ought the close season to be less than 139 days (that being the duration of the pre sent close time.) On the second head of inquiry submitted to your Com mittee, they are of opinion that the Saturday's slap, or close time, ought to be strictly observed in the management of every engine, machine, or device used in salmon fishing, whether in rivers andlakes, or on the sea coast. _ This important regulation (the Saturday's. slap) has, from an early period, formed part of the law of Scotland regarding salmon fishings ; but certain novel modes of fishing, not in rivers, but upon the sea coast and near the mouths of rivers, having been recently introduced, the regulation has been evaded, or disregarded, on the supposition that it was not strictly or technically applicable to these. It appears to be quite clear, from the evidence which has been taken as to the habits of the salmon, that the beneficial principle on which the regulation is founded applies with equal force to engines placed or erected on rivers and in all other situa tions • and therefore your Committee strongly recommend that all doubt on the point ought to be removed by the Le gislature, and the observance of the Saturday's slap strictly enjoined in the use of all engines, machines, and devices lawfully used in salmon fishing, whether in rivers and lakes, or upon the sea coast. In particular situations on the sea coast and estuaries, especially the more exposed parts, the stormy state of the weather or roughness of the sea might render it impossible or dangerous to open and re-set nets or other engines during the hours of the weekly close time. Your Committee are disposed to think that this difficulty would be rarely experienced ; but it would be proper to make provision that in such cases the penalties by which the regulation might be enforced should not be exigible, when ever it might appear that the non-compliance had not been wilful, but the result of necessity. Your Committee may remark that the opinion they have now expressed coincides, in principle, with the recommenda tion of the Committee in 1825, as expressed in their fourth resolution, viz.—" That during the fishing season there ought, throughout the rivers, streams, lakes, and sea coasts of the United Kingdom, to be a close time weekly, com mencing at sunset in the evening of Saturday, and ending at sunrise on Monday, guarded by such penalty as may be deemed sufficient ;" but the recommendation, as well as some others made by that Committee, was not carried into effect by the Act 9 Geo. IV. Great complaints - having been made by the river proprie tors of the encroachments practised by the owners of fixed engines, in stationing them within, or so close to the months of rivers as materially to prevent the run of fish up the ri vers ; your Committee have examined witnesses on the point, and the result is a conviction that such encroachments are practised to the great injury of the river proprietors ; and they think that increased facilities for enforcing promptly, and at small expense, the law upon this point would be pro ductive of very great advantage. With regard to the construction and regulation of cruives the inquiries of your Committee lead them to believe that very extensive abuses prevail, attended with very serious in jury to the general interests of the fisheries, and more espe cially to the interests of the proprietors of upper &things. In the construction of a cruive the only legitimate object is to adapt it to the taking of fish above a certain size, and the free run through the Saturday's slap. It ought to be so formed that fish of all sizes can e asily enter it at all times ; and that fish under a certain size may easily pass through it, and as cend the river. It is o f the greatest importance that fish should enter it with facility, because where they cannot do this the provisions in favour of the smaller fish and the Sa turday's slap b e come inoperative ; an d th e cru i ve ac t s merely as a barrier for detaining the fish in the river imme diately below it, where they are destroyed by nets or other means. The fish are thus effectually prevented from reach upper parts of the river, even although the Satur day'sinthe slap may be in form observed. The evidence which has been obtained by the Committee satisfies them that the abuse which they have just described prevails to a very great extent in many of the rivers in Scot land in which cruives are used, and as examples of this they would direct attention to the evidence respecting the cruives on the Rivers Deveron and Spey. The general principle that engines or devices constructed in the channels of rivers, for the purpose, or with the effect, of so obstructing the ascent of the fish, are illegal, has been fully recognised and acted upon by the Court of Session in various cases. In those of the Duke of Queensbury v. Marquis of Annandale, Nov. 19, 1771, and Dirom v. Littles, Feb. 25, 1797, it was declared to be illegal to use devices expressly for that purpose. The application of this equitable principle to the construction of cruives has also been enforced by the Court of Session in the case of the town of 7 c.in . the. Earl of Fife, 1774 ; ind in the case of Sir James Grant v. the Duke of Gordon, 1777 ; of which de crees copies were given in among the evidence laid before the committee. Your Committee thus feel themselves warranted in as suming that the principle, which in itself appears to them so just and equitable, does actually pervade and regulate the ex isting law on the subject. As, however. the authority of the decisions in the cases above cited, and any similar spe cial cases (in which the principle has been enforced in the construction of cruives) may be thought to operate as legal precedents only in reference to the rivers to which they se verally relate, they strongly recommend that general regu lations, founded upon that principle for the formation and management of cruives, should be framed and made appli cable to all rivers on which more than one proprietor has a right of salmon fishing. The points to which these legislative regulations ought to be directed, are, Ist—The position of the sole or bottom of the cruive-box, relatively to the bottom or natural bed of the river. The sole of the cruive-box and the bed of the river .ought to be on the same level ; and if it be necessary to place the cruive-box on stones, these stones ought to be so sunk or bedded in the bottom or channel of the river that the latter shall remain on a level with their upper sur face. 2d. The situation of the cruive-box or boxes, in re lation to the main stream of the river. 3d. The form and height of the cruive-dike. It ought not to be higher than one foot and a half above the surface of the water at its average level, exclusive of floods. 4th. The height of the cruive-box, which ought not to be above the surface of the water at its mean level. sth. The forms and distances of the rungs of the pecks. And 6th. The construction of the inscales. On the subject of mill-leads and dams, the Committee have taken valuable evidence ; and they are of opinion that much may be done by the owners thereof in favour of the fishing interest, without any injury whatever being sustained by the manufacturing establishments which are dependent upon water power. They recommend that mill-leads or courses should be kept shut at all times when the mill is not at work ; and also that the iron grating or fender, so strongly recommended by the Committee of 1825, should be used, so as to prevent the entry of fish or fry. There is no reason to doubt that mill-dams, as at present constructed in numerous salmon rivers, form most serious obstacles to the ascent of the breeding fish, and also occa sion the destruction of vast quantities of the fry. Your Committee are fully alive to the great importance of the interests which are thus brought into apparent conflict with the interests of the salmon fishery ; and they have, there fore much satisfaction in reporting their opinion that these may be reconciled, and the evils suffered by the one party in a great measure obviated at a trifling expense, without subjecting the other to any real injury. Mr. Smith, of Deanston, in the county of Perth, who is connected with extensive manufacturing establishments employing water power on different rivers, has explained to your Committee a contrivance called " a salmon stair," which he finds to be perfectly successful in facilitating the passage of salmon over dams, which were previously almost insuperable bar riers to them. This device may be applied at a small ex pense to existing dams ; and, in the original construction of any dam hereafter to be erected, a form and arrange ment may be easily prescribed, and ought to be enjoined, to secure the same beneficial end. On this point the state ments of Mr. Smith are amply confirmed by the testimony of Mr. Thom, an eminent engineer, much interested in cer tain extensive manufacturing concerns driven by water- power. The Committee in 1825 reported, as their 7th resolti- don, " That it is indispensable to guard against the ad mission into all rivers, streams, estuaries and lakes, in which salmon exist, of any matter proceeding from manufactories of any description which is known or deemed to be poi sonous or deleterious to fish." Your Committee are fully persuaded that this opinion is well founded ; and, although it is thought by some that any general and qualified regu lation on the subject might be productive of some degree of practical inconvenience in its bearing upon some manu factories of lesser extent, yet, with regard to gasworks (the number and magnitude of which are so rapidly increasing), and some other manufactories, they are led to believe that no serious difficulty would prevent the resolution of 1 8 5. from being carried into effect. Mr. Smith, of Deanston, has stated, from his own experience, not only the practica bility, but the advantage to the owners of the work to be derived from the process which he details for separating the deleterious matter from the water of gasworks, beforo it is allowed to reach the river. Your Committee further recommend that from and after the termination of the ordinary fishing season a further term of fourteen days shall be allowed, during which it shall be lawful, under certain restrictions, to fish for salmon, and fish of the salmon kind, with rod. Your Committee are disposed to think that such a privilege will have a material effect in interesting in the improvement of the fishery the heritors upon the uper parts of the rivers, who chiefly pos sess the opportunity and powers to protect the fish during the breeding season. The Committee are of opinion that the heritors should have power to appoint and pay inspectors, in addition to the water bailiffs and other officers authorised by existing Acts, the duty of all persons so appointed being to see the va rious provisions and regulations carried into effect. They further recommend that summary powers should be vested in the proper authorities for enforcing the various regula tions, and imposing the penalties which may be annexed to the violation of them. In compliance with the instruction that the Committee should inquire respecting the increase or decrease of salmon and other fish of the salmon kind, since the passing of the Act 9 Geo. IV., c. 39, they have done everything in their power, but various difficulties have occurred to prevent their arriving at an accurate result. The letter received from the Board of Customs is referred to on this head. The Committee feel it to be their duty to state that in some in stances the returns of the produce of river fishings have been withheld from them, whilst those of the coast fishings have been readily given. In those instances where returns have been given it will frequently be seen that, where the produce of the coast fishing has increased, that of the river has declined, even to the extent of causing the abandonment of the station in the river. The petitions referred to the Committee have been duly considered. Your Committee have only further to add, that they have instructed their Chairman to move for leave to bring in a Bill to alter and mind the Act 9 Geo. IV., c. 39, in conformity with this report. 30th June, 1836. PORT OF LONDON. The following is a copy of the Resolutions agreed to by the Select Committee of the Hous:... of Commons on the port of London, and embodied in their Report to the House :- 1. That the navigation of the river Themes, in the port of London, has for a great length of time been subjected to great and increasing obstructions, by which the mari time approach to the metropolis has been most seriously impeded, shipping exposed to injury and needless detention, and that frequent accidents have occurred, several of which have been attended with loss of human life. 2. That these obstructions have been produced by A crowded state of the river, arising from the greatly in. creased and still increasing traffic and shipping frequenting,- the port, by the introduction of steam navigation, and espe cially by the collier tier stationed in the pools, and the ill regulated manner in which colliers laatve Isom permitted to lie at anchor in the stream, by shoals and banks, which pre sent impediments to the navigation ; and, finally, by the want of an efficient supervision, and a more effective exe cution of the harbour service ; and that, although it ap pears to this Committee that since the period at which they commenced their inquiries an improvement in the last re spect has taken place, yet they conceive the public have no adequate security against the recurrence of those evils. 3. That this Committee are of opinion that the various conflicting jurisdictions and claims of the Admiralty, Trinity House, and Corporation of London over the river Thames below the bridges, have had a most injurious effect upon the navigation, and that it is desirable that they should be con solidated, and vested in some one responsible body, and that means should be found for the removal of shoals and ob structions in the bed of the river. 4. That, considering the magnitude of the interests in volved, and the pressing necessity of remedial regulations under legislative authority, by which accidents on the river may be provided against, additional security to property afloat afforded, and the commerce and navigation of the port of London thus preserved and promoted, the Committee re commend that a copy of the minutes of evidence taken be fore them, and of the papers connected with this inquiry, be' referred to the Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of his Majesty's Privy Council for Trade, w'tii the view that a Bill may be prepared under the authority of his Majesty's Government, for consolidating, enlarging, and amending the laws " for rendering more commodious and better regulating the port of London," and to embrace the various amendments and regulations required, and that such Bill be submitted to Parliament in the ensuing session. 5. That it is the opinion of this Committee that, for the safe and convenient transit of shipping and craft in the port of London, it is expedient that a clear passage of the width of not less than 300 feet should be maintained in the river Thames, according to the existing by-laws ; that the colliers at anchor in the stream should be so regulated as to prevent interruption to ships passing up and down ; and Oct suitable moorings should be laid down for colliers in the Pool, so as to secure them in their respective stations, and prevent en croachment on the water-way ; and that if, in consequence of preserving a clear passage to this extent, inconvenience should result to the general trade of the river, it appears to your Committee that it will be desirable to encourage the construction of collier docks in order to facilitate this object. 6. That it further appears to your Committee that, as a